Internships

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Behavioral Health Network, Inc. (BHN) has a long-standing history of partnering with local colleges and universities to provide a diverse internship experience. We offer a wide range of internship opportunities for students who are passionate about human services, including Bachelor’s-level and first and second year Master’s-level internships in the areas of addiction services, community outreach, emergency services, and youth and family services.


Internship opportunities at BHN include options for both traditional and non-traditional hours to meet the needs of the student. Experiences include placements in both agency-based settings and working with individuals and families in the community.


Our internship program focuses on developing students’ skills, experience, knowledge and perspectives in order to be successful in their careers. Each experience is enhanced by and reflective of the current trends and practices in behavioral health care. Our commitment to training the next generation of providers is broad and deep.

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Internship Opportunities

Bachelor's and Master's Degree Candidates

BHN has a competitive evaluation and placement process for internships, with the goal of offering permanent employment after completion of the intern program.


BHN's mission is to help individuals, families, and communities improve the quality of life for those with behavioral and developmental challenges. BHN offers a variety of internship opportunities at numerous locations throughout Western Massachusetts and within many different programs such as Medical Integration, Crisis and Emergency Services, Outpatient, Substance Use Disorders, Corporate/Quality, children’s programs, community & hospital-based forensic services, and more. BHN has openings for students to perform observation hours, residency placements, experiential learning opportunities, masters-level internships, bachelor’s level internships, post-graduate internships, specialized licensure paths internships, and many more!

Programs  Offering Internships

Clinical

  • Adult Community Crisis Stabilization and Respite

    The BHN CCS/Respite program is a short-term intervention offered to individuals who can voluntarily participate in their recovery process. 


    BHN offers a short-term (3-5 days) out-of-home placement to stabilize individuals in an emerging crisis situation. The program offers a home-like, safe, and supervised environment for psychiatric crisis, hospital step-down, medication evaluation and service coordination. CCS is a voluntary, unlocked, community-based treatment program. Our services are strength-based and “person centered”. 


    We use a recovery model to offer support to our population. Interventions include: individual treatment planning, individual and group counseling, nursing assessment and medication management, psychiatric evaluation and stabilization, referral and aftercare planning.

  • Agawam Counseling Center

    Individual, family and group outpatient therapy.

  • Carson Center for Children and Youth

    The Carson Center helps people achieve greater health and well-being in everyday life.  Experienced crisis clinicians provide temporary and face to face support, consultation and evaluation 24 hours a day, seven days a week.  They bring compassionate expertise to behavioral health, wellness, and education services for children.

  • Center for Development

    The Center for Development in Springfield and Westfield provides outpatient clinical services to people with developmental disabilities as well as support and consultation to their teams. This involves individual therapy, family therapy, group therapy and case consultation in a variety of settings.

  • Child Guidance Clinic

    The Child Guidance Clinic Outpatient program at BHN provides comprehensive mental health, educational, developmental, behavioral, and consultative services to children, adolescents, and their families in Springfield, MA and the surrounding communities. Our multidisciplinary staff offers a variety of culturally competent programs in our clinic, at numerous community sites, and in homes.

  • City Clinic

    Outpatient/inpatient family and group therapy.

  • Crisis Services

    BHN’s Crisis Program provides 24/7 front line response to individuals of all ages who are experiencing a behavioral health crisis, regardless of insurance. BHN provides services on a mobile basis, including home and community-based settings or in an emergency department when needed.

  • Crisis Stabilization

    The Crisis Stabilization Unit is a safe, supervised, 15-bed environment combining Department of Mental Health and Crisis beds. Individuals served at CSU are provided a range of services including medical evaluations, groups, and one-on-one meetings, among other services.

  • Integration (Care Management merged with Primary Behavioral Heath + Care Partners)

    A Whole Health Care Management Program that provides a team based, comprehensive medical and behavioral care management services for children, youth and adults. The programs serve individuals with physical health/chronic disease needs, behavioral health needs and complex, co-morbid physical and behavioral health needs. The teams are integrated with primary care staff in community and health centers.

  • In-Home Therapy

    In-Home Therapy works with families with a child or teen with behavioral issues to help to resolve conflicts, develop new routines, set limits and find community resources. We offer intensive and flexible services such as family therapy, therapeutic training and support, care coordination and others, in any setting where the youth is naturally located to meet the needs of families.

  • Liberty Street Clinic

    The Liberty Street Clinic at Behavioral Health Network offers mental health and substance abuse outpatient treatment to adults using individual, group, and family/couple modalities. At the Liberty Street Clinic, we aim to help people achieve and maintain optimal real world functioning and assistance in pursuing life goals and improving interpersonal relationships.

  • Mt. Tom Clinic

    Mount Tom Center for Mental Health and recovery is a community-based outpatient mental health and substance abuse program providing on-site and outreach services in the following areas: child and adolescent, adult (general referrals and program based), developmentally delayed/mental health, substance abuse and dual diagnosis (SA/MH).

  • Primary Care Behavioral Health

    A part of BHN’s Integration program, Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) has the goal of integrating behavioral health services to improve the health outcomes of the individuals we serve. PCBH provides targeted, flexible behavioral health support in the primary care setting through treatment that is person-centered, evidence-informed, and focused on collaborate goal-setting.

  • Urban Youth Collaborative Program and Kamp for Kids

    UYC Program places young people in Human Service Internships to help them gain working experience.  Kamp for Kids is a fully inclusive day camp for children 3 to 22 of all ability levels.

Non-Clinical

Department of Pofessional Development: Training, development and implementation


Quality Department: Analysis of workflow and data requirements


Human Rights: Perform trainings and investigations


Integration (Care Management merged with Primary Behavioral Health + Care Partners/ACO): Intern with some beginning skills and interest in doing marketing, gathering and processing data, and providing organization.

Multicultural Psychology Internship Program (MPIP)

This APA and APPIC accredited internship is full-time (40 hours) for one year (52 weeks) for a total of 2,000 hours. The stipend is $37,440 for the year. Applicants need to have earned a master’s degree and have completed at least three years of doctoral coursework in a Psy.D. or Ph.D. program in Clinical or Counseling Psychology to be eligible and must be bi-lingual (English-Spanish).


The multicultural doctoral internship in professional psychology is offered at the School Street Counseling Institute (SSCI) under BHN's Community Behavioral Health Center (CBHC Center for Well Being), a community mental health clinic in Springfield, MA. SSCI provides outpatient community mental health services to Latino/a children, families with a wide variety of mental health and substance use issues. Staff includes professional psychologists, clinicians, school counselors and medication providers who offer linguistically and culturally competent services in English and Spanish.


The Multicultural Psychology Internship Program also offers a 6-month rotation in Medical Integration.

For more information, contact: Ileana M. Estrella, PsyD, LP, LMHC, MPIP Training Director at ​​​​Ileana.Estrella@bhninc.org


The Multicultural Psychology Internship Program is accredited by APA and is a member of APPIC.


Questions related to the program’s accredited status should be directed to the Commission on Accreditation:

Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation, American Psychological Association
750 1st Street, NE, Washington, DC 2002


Phone: (202) 336-5979 Email: apaaccred@apa.org

MPIP Brochure